Improved cigar-machine



, UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM G.- AYRES`AND SETH L. COLE, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

IMPROVED ClGAR-MACHINE.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent N0. 99,745, dated February 15, 1870; antedated February 9, 1870.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that we, WILLIAM G. AYREs and SETE L. COLE, of the city of Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Machinery for Making and Finishing Cigars by the Application of Flexible Non-Adhesive Rollers; and We hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, which are lettered to correspond with and form a part of the specication.

To enable the public to understand the nature of our said invention, and those who are skilled in the mechanic arts to construct and operate the same, we will describe it as follows, to wit:

Figure lis a perspective drawing of our 1na chine for making and finishing cigars. Ais a horizontal shaft, which passes through one end of the lever I, that being secured in its place Y by means of a small set-screw, wedge, or key, u. The lever I is employed to raise the roller C by ineans of the connecting-arms B and B', the front ends of which constitute and form the bearin gs of thehorizontal axes of the cork roller C, so that when the lever I is depressed by the action of a footlever or other suitable power the said roller O is raised and thrown out of gear to enable the operator to feed and remove the cigar from the machine in a nished state. D is a roller, similar in form to the roller C, and with it performs the operation of shaping the cigar and winding the wrapper around the same in a spiral or volute form until it reaches the cone-shaped end or apex of the cigar,which is cut oft' by the revolving cutters F and L.

The knife F is secured to a sleeve, G, Fig. 2, around the end of the axis of the cork roller C, or otherwise arranged to produce a rotary shear cut with the knife L, which is secured to and forms a part of the end of the roller D. The adjustable knife F may be operated with best, the effect of which would be Vthe same.

Mis thetable,upon which the operator guides the prepared wrapper during the process of Winding. The edge V (of the table) next the machine is fashioned Ato correspond with the form of the cigar, and serves the double purpose of keeping the cigar in its proper place, at the same time smoothing the wrapper.

K K Kll Kl arethe gearing-wheels. K receives its motion from the pulley P, and irnparts the same to the connecting-gearing K K K. The frame-work S S S is strengthened and supported byconnectin g horizontal rods H H, and is provided with curved slots N N, for the purpose of receiving the ends of the axes of the roller C, and allow the same to be moved up or down by the lever I, for the ostensible purpose set forth. The horizontal shaft or bar A serves as a fulcrum for the lever I.

Fig. 2 is a front elevation of our machine, having the table removed in order to show more clearly the forming cork rollers C D and independent back roller, O, also the revolving knives F and L at the ends of the cork formers C and D. The roller O is raised in the curved slots N N, Fig. 1, to show more clearly the different parts of the apparatus.

We are aware that cigar-machines have heretofore been constructed with rollers and cutters combined; but we are not aware that the curved edge of the table has ever heen used in place of a fourth roller. Therefore What we do claim as new and of our invention in the machine as above described is The combination of the table M, having the edge V, shaped as described, with the slotted frame S S and rollers O, D, and O, as and for the purpose described.

In testimony whereof we hereunto subscribe our naines in the presence of two witnesses.

WM. G. AYRES. SETH L. COLE. Witnesses:

' J. P. MCLEAN,

J`As. G. HUGHES. 

